2026-2027 SEASON

Pamela Smitter, D.M.A. is an internationally experienced trumpeter, educator, and arts administrator with over 30 years of combined professional performance and university-level teaching. She has held adjunct faculty positions at Miami-Dade College, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Hope College, Grand Valley State University, and Alma College, and has taught at the conservatory level in Venezuela. A former longtime principal trumpet with major orchestras and an active soloist, Dr. Smitter brings elite artistic standards and a global perspective to her work in music education and artist development. She has served as a lead musician and clinician for Carnegie Hall’s LinkUP program and is a recurring trumpet adjudicator for Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra 2 (NYO2). Fully bilingual in English and Spanish, she is committed to inclusive, student-centered education that fosters musical excellence, confidence, and professional readiness.

From the United States to Italy, Ms. Keogan has enchanted audiences with opera, Neapolitan traditions, Broadway, and selections from the Great American Songbook.
She directs and stages her performances with the greatest of ease, and she rouses her audiences to standing ovations. Ms. Keogan has played leading roles with full orchestra at the Teatro Marrucino in Chieti, Italy; she sings seasonally with the Southwest Florida Concert Band; and she has entertained for the Nassau Music Society in the Bahamas. She continues to keep a rigorous concert schedule nationally and internationally.

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